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Ethiopian premier Meles Zenawi dies at 57
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies at the age of 57, state media says. State television in Ethiopia said he died after contracting a sudden infection.
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Ethiopia: Ogaden ricochets back to ExCeL
Watch out for my colleague Alex Thomson’s report tonight on how the much-hyped G20 protests, policed at a cost of millions, were today dominated by a few hundred Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreans, which was not what much of the media, on hand in case of a scuffle, had in mind. They were protesting about human…
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Ethiopia: I tried to give Zenawi a hard time
Ethiopia’s prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is supposed to represent the whole of Africa at the G20 this week – apart from the South Africans, who are the only African G20 members. Yesterday afternoon one of his advisers told me she doesn’t want him to be seen as yet another African leader out with the begging…
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Ethiopia: G20 interview with PM Zenawi
G20, LONDON – A quick post on a hectic day: I’ve just interviewed Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister and the only representative from Africa (outside the G20) to attend the summit.
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‘China and Russia have had a big influence on which countries have been selected’: Jim O’Neill on the expansion of BRICS
The five-nation BRICS group of major emerging economies has invited Iran, Saudi Arabia and four other countries to join its ranks – part of its plan to put voices of the Global South at the centre of the world agenda.
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The world in 2022: what to expect
What might happen in the world in 2022?
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Anti-government troops take control of Tigray’s capital Mekelle
In Ethiopia, anti-government fighters have taken control of Mekelle, the capital city of the northern province of Tigray, after the apparent withdrawal of troops loyal to the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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World Peace Foundation says Tigray situation is “starvation crime”
We spoke to Alex de Waal who produced a significant report, “Starving Tigray”, for the World Peace Foundation.
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Tigray conflict: inside a camp for displaced people as millions flee
In Ethiopia, the humanitarian crisis is deepening in the northern region of Tigray. Millions have been displaced since the war between the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrean troops on the one hand, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front began last November. Today the aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres reported that one of its teams had…
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Duguf – Mohammed Abdullahi Farah: A tribute
Former Channel 4 News producer in Mogadishu, Duguf – Mohammed Abdullahi Farah, died on Wednesday from Covid.
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Horror and unspeakable crimes in the war in Tigray
Our Africa Correspondent Jamal Osman gained rare access to Tigray and spoke to women who told him their accounts of soldiers using rape as a weapon of war.
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Tigray conflict: the testimonies of alleged war crimes
Ethiopia’s leader has admitted for the first time that atrocities have been committed in the northern region of Tigray, claiming that soldiers who raped women or committed other war crimes would be held responsible.
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Dozens of migrant workers among Beirut explosion victims
They were from Syria, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Ethiopia – dozens of those who died in the Beirut explosion were migrant workers, employed at the port or in neighbourhoods nearby.
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Huge swarm of locusts causes devastation in east Africa – as Jamal Osman reports from Kenya
The biggest swarm of locusts for decades sweeps across East Africa, and it’s threatening to wreak catastrophe on countries already struggling with food insecurity.
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UN seeks help to thwart locust swarms in east Africa
The United Nations has called for international help to fight huge swarms of Locusts which are sweeping through parts of east Africa.